Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genius act more like a genius. Von Karman speaks at least seven languages, but his English carries a heavy load of Hungarian accent. When he used to lecture in the classroom, he supplemented speech with intricate gestures. He often wore a black silk cape and was never without a handkerchief, which he twisted, pulled or even chewed during moments of stress...
Audience now wildly prancing, dancing, flinging arms, tossing legs, screaming, shrieking. "Stop it," demands hall manager. Handkerchief jabbed into coat pocket, trim, with cold eyes, he strides to center stage, faces band. Holds up arms, band stops. Crowd doesn't-just gets wilder. Boos, whistles, stomps. Is Concertgebouw licked? Ars longa? No! Administrator plunges into corridor...
...Burnaby, B.C., charged with intent to commit a crime after he was caught sitting in his car in front of a bank with the plates covered and the motor running, John A. Martin, 50, explained to police: he wore dark glasses because he suffered from snow blindness, wore a handkerchief-mask to protect his throat, had a loaded .22 rifle in the car because he had been robbed of $300 three weeks before...
...some tongue-in-cheek tips to première-goers. Two important rules: never show up on time ("Gauge your timing according to your prestige; no self-respecting big star would dream of showing up by 8:30"), and provide "double insurance" ("By accidentally dropping a glove or handkerchief and starting to lean over to pick it up, a star can often put her best features forward for the photographers...
...Ernie Bilko was born. As Silvers plays him, the sergeant's middle name is larceny: he bamboozles everybody on the post with the fast-talking ease of a gypsy promising to double a housewife's savings if she will just wrap up the dough in a clean handkerchief. The show is filmed in Manhattan, where Brooklyn-born Phil Silvers is happiest, and he has his weekends free to go to prizefights, hockey games, and, in season, root for the Dodgers. His left-footed TV platoon is loaded with ex-ringmen (Middleweight Walter Carder, Light-weight Maxie Shapiro, Fight...